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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Robert Heron

Display Tech 2025 – Entertain Our Eyes

Robert Heron's article on Display Tech 2025 highlights CES 2025's advancements in laser projection, LED backlighting, direct-view displays, and micro-LED for consumer and commercial applications.

The Year in Pixels

In 2024, the display industry experienced significant technological advancements, including improved video processing, OLED adoption, affordable supersized screens, miniLED backlighting, 8K projectors, QD-LED, and OLED manufacturing.

Home Theater Maintenance

Regular maintenance of home theater systems is crucial for optimal performance and longevity. It involves managing heat, cleaning dust, updating firmware, maintaining audio quality, keeping spare parts, and removing batteries from rarely used remotes.

The Evolution of Projector Light Sources

Projector light sources have evolved from 1820s limelight to LED and laser technologies. Traditional lamps provided short-lived illumination, while LED and laser sources offer long lifespans, high color purity, and efficiency. RGB laser projectors offer UHD content color accuracy.

CEDIA Expo 2024: Commercial Crossovers

Robert Heron's article "CEDIA Expo 2024: Commercial Crossovers" highlights the integration of automation, Power over Ethernet, video displays, and LED technology in residential and commercial spaces, highlighting energy efficiency and ease of installation.

The Age of eSports

Robert Heron's article "The Age of eSports" explores the evolution of eSports from the 1970s to its current global popularity, highlighting the impact of technology, genre diversity, gaming equipment, and ongoing cheating challenges.

Home Theater Power Management

Robert Heron's article emphasizes the importance of understanding power requirements, protecting electronic devices, using surge protectors, optimizing device settings, and maintaining battery health for home theater systems.

Robotic Eyes: Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras

PTZ cameras provide versatile video production and surveillance solutions, offering motorized controls, panoramic views, and advanced features like automated tracking and analytics, enhancing usability in various environments.

Digital Illusions: Projection Mapping

Projection mapping uses digital video projectors and software to create dynamic visual displays on physical surfaces, transforming various settings like Disney's Cinderella Castle and Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Display Optimization 101

Robert Heron's "Display Optimization 101" emphasizes the importance of fine-tuning display settings, including ambient lighting, picture presets, contrast, brightness, sharpness, motion resolution, display location, and sound quality.

About Me

Robert is a technologist with over 20 years of experience testing and evaluating consumer electronics devices, primarily focusing on commercial and home theater equipment. Robert's expertise as an audio-visual professional derives from testing and reviewing hundreds of related products, managing a successful AV test lab, and maintaining continuous education and certifications through organizations such as CEDIA, the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF), and THX. More recently, Robert has specialized in analyzing audio and video display systems, offering comprehensive feedback, and implementing corrective measures per industry standards. He aims to deliver an experience that reflects the artists' intent and provides coworkers and the public with clear, insightful product information.
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